World Climate Report » Icing Up the Great Lakes

Wang et al. comment on these patterns noting “Previous studies show that Great Lakes ice cover had a significant downward trend, about ~1% per year, for the period between the onset of winter in 1972 and the end of winter in 2001. Nevertheless, during the entire period of the winters of 1972–1973 to 2008–2009, the downward trend disappears or even reverses. This indicates that (1) natural variability dominates Great Lakes ice cover and (2) the trend is only useful for the period studied.”

The Hockey Schtick: NASA's (Changing) FACTS

NASA FACTS 1998 (p.3): "The temperature record of the past hundred years does show a warming trend, by approximately 0.5°C. However, the observed warming trend is not entirely consistent with the carbon dioxide change. Most of the temperature increase occured before 1940, after which Earth started to cool until the early seventies, when warming resumed. Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, has been increasing steadily throughout the past century."...

The Wisdom of Solomon « Climate Audit

If IPCC authors think that it’s important to improve the measurement of some variable, should they say so in an IPCC report?

Richard Littlemore | Tim Ball [publicly debates alarmists for hours]

The conversation, and the attached recording (NB: With my apologies, the record exceeds the DSB capacity; I will convene with the tech experts tomorrow and try to get it posted), went on for two-and-a-half painful hours, with Ball dismissing all climate science as a fiction promulgated by a small group of ideologues and the students - laptops in hand - challenging and dismissing his arguments on the basis of ready information.
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But the most offensive moments come when Ball accuses OTHER people of irresponsibility.

"Don’t get me wrong, if you want to play with your models in the lab, that’s fine. But you have a scientific responsibility which I happen to think you’re not fulfilling. But when you go public with your models and say your model works and you have to base your whole policy for the world on this, that’s a whole different responsibility."

Video: O'Reilly Factor producer confronts Al Gore with inconvenient questions; Gore scurries for cover | GORE LIED

O’Reilly Factor producer Jesse Watters had the good fortune to track down Al Gore recently. But Gore, outside of his protective cocoon ever so briefly, looked dazed and confused by this member of the media who had the audacity to ask him some inconvenient questions.